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The locals call the sand dunes of the Arizona Territory southland a white ocean. One man, Barney Shivers, carries the comparison a little further when he orders his men to attack any freight shipping that he does not control, and steal the goods on board....

The legend of Billy Bascom is born the day they plant the cross that reads: 'Here lie Ben Ober and Jim Boone, hanged for cattle rustling, May 14, 1880'. There should be a third name on that board: that of Billy Bascom. But the kid is rescued from Jason...

For twelve-year-old Brent Cutler, seeing his father lynched was the most powerful influence on his young life, giving him an abiding and lifelong hatred of injustice in any form. As an adult, he returns to the town where he grew up, as a representative...

After his mother and father die, and the girl he hopes to marry turns him down, Jude James decides to abandon his rented homestead and ride for the West along with Josh, a young ex-slave seeking sanctuary. Eventually they fall in with a gang led by Brod...

Two unemployed wranglers are given a gold nugget for helping an old prospector named Huggy Johnson when his wagon breaks down. Alamo Todd Heffridge and his partner Kid Streater unwittingly sell the nugget to an unscrupulous assay agent in the Arizona...

Former lawman Rance Toller and his lover Angie Sutter foil a stagecoach robbery just outside the frontier settlement of Tombstone, Arizona, and in the process capture the notorious gunfighter Johnny Ringo. As a result, Rance is persuaded to accept the...

"Two western stories: The Valley of Thunder finds Marshal Hugh Mitchel trying to make the streets of Dunningan, Wyoming, safe despite opposition from ranch owners who are unwilling to have restraints imposed on their men. The Story of Buckhorn is the...

"Late one January afternoon, nine men rode into the town of Florence, Arizona, looking for a place to settle and start a new life, leaving the horrors of the Civil War and its aftermath in the past. One man harboring a secret grudge watched them ride...

"Cherokee has had a series of crimes and the only clue the culprits leave behind is a crude blood-red triangle. It is not until Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens come to town that a way is found to solve the mystery"--

"In southern New Mexico, Sam MacKinnon is double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and left with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. Overlooked by a posse, he finds his horse and starts out on the vengeance trail. Stopping...

"King Parson married Dale Thorne's widowed mother and took control of the million-acre Thunderhead spread. When King's brutality toward Dale and his mother drove her to an early grave, Dale vowed vengeance and rode out. Three years later, he returns tough...

"Warner accepts a request from Justa Williams to go to Mexico to check out some high-priced Arabians with Justa's hot-headed, skirt-chasing, younger brother Ben, who will be carrying (dollar) 5,500 in gold with which to purchase the horses. This trip...

"Seventeen-year-old Alden Clare has plenty weighing on him: an ailing father, a restless older brother, and an impatient girlfriend. His brother argues with their father and leaves. His girlfriend, Claudette, decides she doesn't want to wait any longer,...

"Fourteen original stories that capture the spirt of freedom and individualism on the evolving American frontier through the early 1900's, and feature exciting new characters who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to...

"President Chester Arthur calls semi-retired Murphy back to duty when, with a pending meeting of world leaders in New York City, prostitutes are being murdered and dismembered in the streets. Arthur's special assistant William Burke travels to New York...

"Steel Fixx and his cousin Honus Rust are enmeshed in a feud started in their youth in Tennessee and carried with them as they moved west. Hatred pushes each man far past the boundaries of sanity. Then the unthinkable happens: Steel's daughter Molly ...

"A young couple leaves Ohio for the promise of a new life on the Kansas plains. They settle a prime tract of farm land near Lawrence, Kansas. A second young couple slips the bonds of slavery in Missouri. Circumstance brings them together. Set against...

When Will Curtis rides into Junction City on a cold rainy night, all he wants is a shot of whiskey and a place to dry off. Instead, he finds himself dragged into a feud between a land-hungry banker and the tough homesteaders who are desperate to keep...

When Nathaniel McBain and Shackleton Frost arrive in Lone Pine to escort a prisoner to Beaver Ridge jail, they are shocked to discover it is Shackleton's old friend Sheriff Ashton Clarke. Five years ago, Ashton tamed the town, but now he's been charged...

As young drifter Tim Jackson rides through the high country, he realizes he is not alone: shots begin to rain down on him from the undergrowth, and he barely escapes with his life. As his mount comes to a halt at the edge of the forest, Jackson notices...

Morgan Latimer is a drifter, riding through the West trying to escape his past, and especially trouble. During his travels, he is forced to take shelter in a cave as a massive dirt storm plunges him into darkness. After it passes, Latimer overhears a...

They are neighbours and friends, helping each other 'prove up' their homesteads on time. There are plenty of others like them in Cannon Valley, except for the fact that the areas of land belonging to each of the men are coveted by someone who knows a...

After coming to the aid of an oldster, Chet Westoe finds himself being tracked by three unknown riders. A confrontation in the town of Desolation Wells leads to a shootout, but faced with the prospect of jail, Westoe breaks free. He heads for a ranch...

"Two western stories: 'Troubled Waters' is set in Wyoming during the conflict between cattlemen and sheepmen. In 'Robber's Roost' an Arizona sheriff must enter an outlaw hideout to rescue a hostage."--

"Two western stories: In 'Ryker' Jake returns home after his brother is injured and ends up journeying across New Mexico and Texas to bring back a herd to stock their failing ranch. In 'Law Comes to Lawless' John Glyde becomes the town's marshal for....

"Beaver Killer, an infant survivor of the Washita Massacre, goes to school at Fort McPerson to learn the white man's ways. As a teen his grandfather gives him a mission--the destruction of General Wesley Hazlitt, the officer who had organized the attack....

"From Texas to Tombstone, Arizona, Texas Ranger Walt Slade has trailed a killer who always seems to be one step ahead of him. Now he not only has to get his man, but also has to convince Marshal Wyatt Earp that he isn't an owlhooot."--

"Surrounded by ranches, farms, and precious metal mines, the town of Dover Station, Montana is ripe for the plucking. It's up to Sheriff Aaron Mackey to keep the peace--and keep the dregs of humanity from trying to make a killing."--

This is a story of murder, greed and corruption littering the long dark trail from the East Coast of America, to south Texas. It is the story of Louise Kettle, a frontier woman, and her love for an ageing gunfighter, a man with a voice in the White House....

Danny Roden's Travelling Medicine and Jamboree Show pulls into Bradbury, hoping for a peaceful trip. But trouble quickly finds them in the shape of Jack Donovan. After a failed robbery attempt, Donovan disrupts the lady sharpshooter Smoke Winters' act....

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going...

"Lee Sowell, a would-be bootlegger and outlaw, is compelled by Judge Isaac Parker to become a U.S. deputy marshal. He receives his training under the tutelage of famed deputy Bass Reeves and becomes a deputy with a posse of his own, ranging across the...

"What do you get when you take one stagecoach out of Denver, add a thousand-or-so bullets whizzing past your head, while sitting next to two headless corpses caught in the crossfire? If your name is Lou Prophet, you get revenge. Raucous, rowdy, ruthl...

"After losing his wife and children in the Civil War, Shad Parker moved to Texas and planted a DO NOT TRESPASS sign on his land and his heart. Enter three scrappy orphans hiding in a cave on Shad's land. Shad grudgingly saves their lives and takes them...

"Rubén Santiago, enslaved in Mexico as a child, has turned his back on his Navajo heritage. Now an old man, his only friend is Morgan Braddock, a haunted Civil War veteran with a questionable past. Morgan wants nothing more than to return to his wife...

"It is 1862. With his older brothers fighting in the war, Wyatt Earp - at fourteen - is left to manage the family's Iowa farm under his father's iron rule. These years of labor inculcate into him an ambition to seek his fortunes by his wits rather than...

"What kind of crazy man would lead eighteen stolen mules into the searing heat of the Mojave Desert? The Mojave is out of the jurisdiction of Sheriff Ned Cody, but his two best friends are belly down across the backs of two of those mules. When the g...

"Tom Palding offers Ned Rippon $500 to impersonate him for five days to find out why Charles Barrett has summoned him back to Tyndal Valley which he fled twenty years ago after killing Sam Barrett. Rippon needs the money and agrees, but soon wonders if...

"Chuck Jenkins was in trouble. Framed into a fight and then thrown into jail, he had only a few more days to raise the money to pay for his T-Bench ranch or forfeit it to Craig Kimball and Fisher Cochrane. There was nothing to do but call on his old ...

"When the two largest landowners in the territory decided to join forces, take over all the small ranchmen and drive them from the country, the Woodward family, owners of the Flying W, decided to hold out against the Eastern syndicate, but they didn't...

"U.S. Deputy Marshal Ben Knight takes off his badge and rides into Gunsight seeking vengeance for his kid brother's hanging. But the town marshal was killed during the lynching and the townspeople want Ben to take his place. Ben must choose between his...

"When Texas Ranger Will Kirkpatrick asks the judge to show leniency to Jonas Peterson, a young outlaw who saved Will's life, the judge suspends his five year sentence and places Jonas on probation for one year in Will's custody. Although reluctant at...

Old-time lawman Charlie Crow finds peace in Wyoming; but before he can settle down permanently, he must face a distant and dangerous past. Old ghosts, graves and range wars, greed and double-cross mark the long trail back to his youth in the Texas bo...

No matter what the odds, US Marshal Alvin LeRoy always completes his assignments. That's why he's been sent after the Reno gang. His pursuit takes him across southwest Texas, where he faces up to bushwhackers and the aftermath of a massacre as he rel...

Bolt, the general foreman for Tug Mackintosh's railroad line, is charged with the simple task of meeting and bringing Mack's young bride-to-be to the end of the tracks. Arriving just in time to fend off would-be abductors, Bolt is smitten by the ench...

When Crado Bluestone buys some cattle to start his own ranch, it comes as a brutal shock when he is accused of being a rustler and is strung up from a tree. The real cattle thieves, led by a killer named Monk Purvis, leave him for dead. Help is close...

When Bodie and Brand arrive in San Francisco, searching for a kidnapped young woman, the city by the bay doesn't exactly welcome them with open arms. But danger has never stopped these two before - not even when it comes in the form of a deadly Chinese...

When former deputy town marshal Frank Calland helps out another saddle-tramp whom he finds stranded without food or water in the Arizona desert, he ends up being pursued by an angry posse - but this is only the beginning of his problems. He finds him...

Sheriff Ray Cairney is sure something untoward is going on in Bristow, and that Curtis Waring, bank manager and town council leader, is behind it. The arrival of two gunslingers and the subsequent turn of events convince Cairney his hunch was right -...

When a gang of criminals commits an atrocious robbery in the bank of Harrisville, bounty hunter Jubal Thorne is quick on their trail. The murder of innocent bystanders during the robbery makes Thorne, known as Blaze, determined that the criminals will...

Some call her Red Kenyon the Red Canyon hellcat - and the young woman with an unmanageable tangle of red hair has proved herself the equal of most men on more than one occasion. But Red is only beginning to realize her mistake in trying to go after the...

Diane Kingsley, part-owner of the Cock's Crow Saloon, has made one too many enemies, and finally they've seen to it that she was thrown aboard a westbound train and sent out alone into the desert. Well... not quite alone, for, when she arrives, she finds...

"Annie Ryan running a second-rate brothel in 1890s Denver with an eye toward expansion. By chance she encounters Lydia Chambers a society woman suffering from a laudanum habit and a bad marriage, who owns a prized property on the infamous Market Stre...

"Someone's stealing gold shipments in Colorado. John Whyte, ace Pinkerton detective, is tasked to find the culprits and bring them to justice. He is joined by his friends and associates: Khan Singh, his loyal Sikh manservant from his service for the Queen...

"Josey Angel, a Union cavalryman struggling to set aside a violent past; Annabelle Rutledge, a Southern war widow who found love in the West but little peace; and a Sioux determined to earn his warrior name -- Crazy Horse. After Annabelle is seized in...

Wilkie John Liquorish may be a young man, but he's no greenhorn. So far in his short, hard life, he's dug graves, driven cattle, and nearly dangled from the end of a hangman's noose--no thanks to his ungentlemanly enemy, Gentleman Jack Delaney. Now W...

"In the Dakota Territory of the 1870s, the line between outlaw and lawman is often blurred. Some sworn to protect the helpless might exploit them instead. And some hard cases might redeem themselves. Here, a lawman and an outlaw plunge into a battle that...

"Life is hard on the American frontier. Justice is even harder. But when it comes to revenge, no man can escape the righteous wrath of a wronged bounter hunter. Especially when his name is Flintlock... Flintlock takes no pleasure in killing. But when...

"In Land Rush white families have lined up, waiting for the U.S. Army's signal to move in on the land vacated by the Ute Indians and make their homestead claims. Steve Regan knows the newly opened land well enough and wants to head for the mesa land because...

"Red Clark is tired of fighting other men's battles and returns to Miz Dobbs and her Arrowhead Ranch where he had spent much of his youth. He tries to settle down, but the Dobbs-Hepple feud has just burst into flame and he was just in time to lead th...

"Fear was rampant in the Muleshoe country -- fear of the unknown figure called the Baron, fear of men who killed with blunt arrows and other weapons not common to the frontier, fear that the local lawman himself might be the next to go. So Jackson, a...

"Expert investigator Mel Davitt is brought in when the new State Bank of Milton is robbed. Just outside of town, Davitt joins up with Buck Granger, a young cowpuncher who helps him catch the bank robber known as the Crow. This is the beginning of a p...

"Seven years ago Skeet Jones rescued thirteen-year-old Angela. Now a famous singer known as the Songbird of the West and going by the name of Carrie Whiting, she agrees to sing at his new saloon in Dry Creek to repay the debt. When threats arise, Det...

Tracking outlaws Dobie Miller and Waldo Schmitt into a deadly desert, the notorious bounty hunter Iron Eyes is closing the distance between them with every beat of his determined heart. Yet the magnificent palomino stallion beneath his ornate saddle ...

Riding on the Danville stagecoach as a young lad, Jason Colebrook survived a robbery but was badly wounded. Twenty years later, determined to uncover the truth, he gets a lead to a frontier town in Nebraska where he falls foul of a local gang, but also...

When Sarah McKinney finally escapes the clutches of her abusive husband, she and her adopted son Jason begin a perilous new life on the run. Eventually they settle down as Sarah finds work as a doctor's assistant, and Jason is reunited with his real father...

Twenty years after being jailed on a trumped-up charge of train robbery, Jack Garrison escapes from Yuma Penitentiary with nothing to his name but an old banjo and the hope of proving his innocence. Jack is banking on the help of his younger brother,...

When Captain Nathan Kelso has a falling-out with his commanding officer, Major Matthew Hackett, Company 'C' is unofficially disbanded - but not for long, with broncos and Apaches raising hell throughout the territory. Then a patrol under a green lieutenant...

When Anthony Armstrong returns to his hometown of Parson's End after completing his studies at Harvard, he expects to spend a few quiet weeks lending a hand at his family's farm. When his father is shot, however, he is drawn into a vicious range war....

"Professor Henry Whiteoak is a liar and a swindler heading to Montana. Corey Maynard is a thief who has worked with Whiteoak and backs him in business adventures of crooked card games and deadly shootouts in Montana. Bounty hunters are looking to cash...

"In the brutal, unforgiving wastes of the Arizona desert, Chet Byrnes built a cattle ranching empire with his bare hands, steel will, and a fast draw. As the U.S. marshal, he risks his life to bring law to a lawless land. When a new railroad route is...

"Bitter Trail: Tough teamster Frio Wheeler hauls cotton from Texas to Mexico. But as the Civil War rages through the South, Wheeler must contend with the most difficult challenges he's ever faced, including imprisonment with the bandidos in league with...

"There's something rotten in Wyoming, and the first whiff is coming off the Laramie County Cattlemen. Right off the bat Duff MacCallister notices there's no small-time ranchers allowed. It's big-leaguers only, like Brad Houser of the sprawling Twin P...

"Cowhand Luther Pike always dreamed of being a lawman. His first assignment is to escort the infamous Nellie Dupray, a beautiful but shady woman convicted as a rustler, to the Capital City jail. His journey is lined with dangers that even the most ha...

"The Flaming Rider: Large groups of Blackfeet, Cheyennes, and Crows, ordinarily hostile to each other, are camped around the newly built Fort Meany, having come to trade with factor Henry Meany. The members of these tribes love most of all to gamble,...

"Rocky Jeanette and two accomplices robbed the Boulder City bank. When Rocky learns that the amount reported stolen was about five times what they took, he knows the banker, Charles Oatman, must have embezzled the rest. Rocky returns to Boulder City ...

"John Henry Cole agrees to escort an old rancher and his two sons to an outlaw stronghold to arrange for the release of the man's kidnapped wife after the Pinkerton sent to deliver her ransom has been found dead with the money gone"--

"U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner sets off into Oklahoma Territory pursuing a bank robber unaware that notorious cattle rustler Jebediah Cotton has sent his five remaining sons and a cold-hearted brother-in-law after Tanner to avenge the death of Cott...

"In "Death for Double-O Neighbors," Tom Lucas owes plenty to Old Bob Hurley who raised him and helped him start up his own ranch, the Wagon Wheel. Lucas is also in love with his granddaughter, Marcia, who has just returned from the East. Hurley calls...

"The Kerrigans have fought long and hard to carve out their own piece of heaven on the Texas frontier. And when evil comes knocking at their door, with guns blazing, there'll be hell to pay ... NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL It begins with a simple act of...

"Powerful merchant and political strongman James Dolan owns Lincoln County, until brash young English businessman John Turnstall hits town to challenge his empire. War breaks out when Turnstall is murdered. William Bonney vows revenge, launching the ...

.45-caliber Town Under Siege: Cuno Massey has been cooling his heels in the little northern New Mexico town of Nopal, trying to give up his gunslinging ways and return to freighting. But a large gang of cutthroats who call themselves "the Boys," led by...

"Outlaw Stormy Merrill is looking for a place to hide out for a while, but when he discovers Marais Valley and finds that the two ranches comprising the valley will be inherited by the owners' single daughters, he devises a plan whereby he could own it...

"Owen Conagher was ambushed as he rode through the town of Bitter Creek in the evening darkness. Wounded in the initial attack, he became the target for a group of vigilantes so crazed for blood that they never suspected that their target was the wrong...

"Mountie Lucas Donovan chases a ruthless serial killer whose victims include Lucas' twin brother. Taking an administrative leave and accompanied by his malamute sled dog, Lucas crosses the border into the U.S. and faces a struggle for survival in the...

"Army scout John Hawk helps three women traveling through Blackfoot country, pursued by outlaws. Reaching their destination in Helena, the women thought they were safe. But Zach Dubose and his two partners were waiting for them. Dubose kills the youngest...

"Sixth generation Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk takes on a drug organization in this contemporary novel. After a major drug bust in which Jim kills a drug dealer, a hit is put out on him. Jim will fight for his life to protect and defend his family,...